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The group gets back into the cars and Clarissa drives them to the last house. Again, she gets out and calls for a volunteer to donate blood in the cause.

Mike, pale from his donation earlier, declines. Jacob refuses to take part in a Satanic ritual. Larry, also pale, waits to see if someone else will do it.

In the meantime, Clarissa heads into the basement. Shortly afterward, everyone hears a scream, and she stumbles out.

"There's a body," she gasps, "a young girl!"

Derek cautiously peers inside with his folding knife held ready.

Derek sees the body of a young woman, probably in her late teens, slumped in the midst of painted symbols in the basement. Her arms have makeshift bandages wrapped around them, as if she'd hurt herself several times.

Ray lets go of Larry's hand and feels her way to Derek. "What do you see?" she asks, tentatively.

(<passes a god-note>)

"Dead chic. Maybe 18ish with lacerated arms. Wait here" Derek grabs a flashlight and quietly creeps into the basement, knife at the ready.

[If nothing else is down there, he'll check the girl to see if she's still got blood left, and make doubly sure she's dead.]

Larry comes up behind Ray, peering over her shoulder as Derek moves into the basement.

Derek finds a knife laying beside the girl, but other than that nothing. He puts a finger to her throat, and finds no pulse. She's pale, and none of her wounds bleed. Derek would guess that she'd been unconscious and left to bleed out here.

Derek moves the corpse to the nearest corner, then pops back out to the others. "Basement's clear."

Clarissa peeks back into the opening, then moves in to assume her spot in the symbols.

"Who's donating this time?" she calls out.

"I-I guess it's my turn?" Ray is tentative, but she starts to feel her way through the opening.

"You sure about this, Ray," Larry asks as he helps her to the right spot, giving Derek a scathing look as he passes.